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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Dimnah

Zebulun gave this town to the Merari clan of Levites. The list in 1 Chronicles calls it Rimmon, either a copying variant or a real change of name. Nobody knows where it stood.

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Zebulun gave this town to the Merari clan of Levites. The list in 1 Chronicles calls it Rimmon, either a copying variant or a real change of name. Nobody knows where it stood.

Who this is

Dimnah was a town of the tribe of Zebulun assigned to the Levite clan of Merari for their residence (Joshua 21:35). The parallel list in 1 Chronicles 6:77 gives the same town's name as Rimmon instead, suggesting either a scribal variant or a genuine name change. Its exact site is unidentified.

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The word

H1829

Where it is
  • 35.310556
  • 32.788056
Where it appears
  • Joshua 21:35

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